elaborate CET4 TEM4 ( elaborating, elaborated, elaborates )

形容词读作ɪˈlæbərɪt。动词读作ɪˈlæbəˌreɪt。

• 1. 

  ADJ You use elaborate to describe something that is very complex because it has a lot of different parts. 复杂的

  例：

  ...an elaborate research project.

  …一项复杂的研究项目。

• 2. 

  ADJ Elaborate plans, systems, and procedures are complicated because they have been planned in very great detail, sometimes too much detail. (有时过于) 周密的

  例：

  ...elaborate efforts at the highest level to conceal the problem.

  …最高层企图掩饰这个问题的百般努力。

• 3. 

  elaborately ADV 周密地

  例：

  It was clearly an elaborately planned operation.

  这显然是一次经过周密策划的行动。

• 4. 

  ADJ Elaborate clothing or material is made with a lot of detailed artistic designs. 设计繁丽的

  例：

  He is known for his elaborate costumes.

  他以其繁丽的服装著称。

• 5. 

  V-T If you elaborate a plan or theory, you develop it by making it more complicated and more effective. 周密制定; 周密发展

  例：

  His task was to elaborate policies that would make a market economy compatible with a clean environment.

  他的任务是周密地制定能够让市场经济适合于无污染的环境的政策。

• 6. 

  elaboration N-UNCOUNT 周密的制定; 周密的发展

  例：

  ...the elaboration of specific policies and mechanisms.

  …对具体政策和机制的周密制定。

• 7. 

  V-I If you elaborate on something that has been said, you say more about it, or give more details. 作详细阐述

  例：

  A spokesman declined to elaborate on a statement released late yesterday.

  发言人拒绝对昨天晚些时候发表的一份声明作出更多说明。